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V.2.5.0 Patch Notes

2.13.2018

By The Fortnite Team

Happy (Belated) Valentine's Day! We <3 you, whether you had a duo partner or dropped at Lonely Lodge this year.

Valentine's day is a time for love, loot and llamas! Patch v.2.5.0 introduces a new grenade, Shrines, weapon balance and bug fixes drop into Battle Royale. Save the World introduces Spring it On!, adding a new Valentine's Questline, Lunar New Year Heroes and … Dragon Weapons!

Impulse Grenade (Battle Royale)
Who's there? You won't have to knock twice with this grenade.

Lunar New Year Heroes (Save the World)
New year, new gear! Harness the power of four Lunar New Year heroes.

Dragon Weapons (Save the World)
Celebrate the New Year in style and fight fire with fire.

General

Enabled dynamic resolution and high quality temporal upsampling on PS4 and Xbox One.

Dynamic resolution gives more consistent framerate during heavy combat and increases visual fidelity when load on the GPU is lighter.

Full 4K Resolution now supported on Xbox One X.

Added a key binding for "Toggle Pickaxe" on PC.

PC + Mac Social Panel has been expanded to make browsing long lists of friends easier.

Added distinctive sound variations when starting to build with Wood/Stone/Metal.

Fixed multiple scenarios where connectivity errors would block login.

Improved XMPP connection recovery on console.

Optimized XMPP payloads.

Removed extra queries when returning from match.

Removed redundant store queries.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a problem with empty progress bars incorrectly showing as full bars on Mac.

Fixed Discord game invites and rich presence information.

PS4

Bug Fixes

In continued partnership with SIE, we have been able to resolve the issue that occurred for some Fortnite players in which patches took longer to download than they should. If you experience a recurrence of this issue, please reach out to Epic Customer Service and we will address appropriately.

Fixed an issue which prevented other players from hearing the Minigun's spin up sound.

Fixed some audio panning issues when equipping the Minigun.

Art/Animation

Improved visual FX when moving through deep water.

Bug Fixes

Fixed Royale Knight's head clipping through the back of her helmet.

Known Issues

Weapon crosshairs will disappear sometimes after using a scoped weapon.

Weapons will sometimes appear to be loaded, but cannot be fired.

In rare cases, an item dropped by an eliminated player cannot be picked up by other players.

Save the World

Spring It On! Event

New quests will be introduced throughout the duration of the event! Spring It On! begins with a tale of love in a storm-ridden world, with the usual Fortnite twist…

Lunar New Year Heroes added, featuring 4 new kits!

Dragon weapons added

Quest Rewards (Sneak Peak):

Love Trooper Jonesy, Legendary Soldier

Choice of three Legendary Dragon Ranged Weapon

New Legendary Melee Defender

Firecracker Tickets

V-Bucks

Spring It On! Gold

Awarded for completing a repeatable Quest

Firecracker Tickets can be earned by using the new Opt-In Difficulty feature (detailed below). They’ll be awarded each time you complete a mission at increased difficulty.

Used to purchase Spring Llamas from the Loot tab.

Updated Loot Llamas to award Firecracker Tickets for the duration of the event.

Spring Llama is available in the Loot tab and costs 1000 Firecracker Tickets to purchase.

Each Llama will contain a Lunar New Years Hero, or a Dragon weapon.

Each stack of 1000 Storm Event Tickets has been exchanged for Storm Llamas.

Up to 3000 Seasonal Gold will be converted 3 to 1 into Firecracker Tickets, and any additional gold beyond that is lost. Spend any additional leftover event gold before the update! Spring It On! Gold is also seasonal and will be replaced when a new season begins.

Mutant Storm and Miniboss Mission Alerts are not tied to this event. Both have returned to their lower “passive” levels of activity, and neither awards event tickets.

Up to 3 Mutant Storms in Stonewood, 10 in other locations. | Quota: 4 per day

Up to 3 Miniboss Alerts in Stonewood, 6 in other locations. | Quota: 3 per day

New, Spring it On!-themed items will appear in the store throughout the event.

Event store Items will appear, and remain available for purchase until the end of Spring It On!.

Weekly store items will only be available for the week in which they appear.

New and Improved Universal Inventory

*NOTE: This feature will be available on Monday, February 19 due to in-progress testing.

You can now prepare your inventory in the Armory before loading into the world.

Use the Backpack screen to equip and recycle world items.

EDIT: Crafting will be coming in V.3.0.0!

Use the Storage screen to transfer items between backpack and Storm Shield storage.

These screens are available in an inspect-only version when connecting to a game session.

New Opt-In Difficulty

A new type of BluGlo Pylon can be found throughout the world, allowing the difficulty of most mission types to be increased up to 5x.

Each time it’s used, the number of enemies increases significantly, giving a small bump to their health + damage output.

Each time the game's difficulty is increased, additional Seasonal Gold is awarded upon completion of the primary mission.

During the Spring It On! event, increasing the mission's difficulty at least once awards a number of Firecracker Tickets, starting at 40 tickets in lower Stonewood, and topping out at 94 tickets at the end of Twine Peaks.

Rarity Evolution and Recycling Changes

The costs of Rarity Evolution have been reworked. The cost to increase the rarity of a Hero now costs more Training Manuals and evolution materials (Drops of Rain, Eye of the Storm, etc) depending on the star level of the Hero.

A partially-complete version of this change was released early in v.2.4.2 and had higher-than-intended costs for evolving 3,4 and 5-Star Heroes. These costs have been corrected in this patch.

When 2-Star or higher Schematics, Heroes, Survivors, Survivor Leads and Defenders are recycled they will now refund all evolution materials spent evolving the item.

This change was made because we wanted players to be able to level up and test out new heroes, weapons, and traps without the risk of losing valuable evolution materials.

Heroes

Introducing Lunar New Years heroes, featuring four new kits:

Berserker - A fearless Soldier who rushes into combat at close range with War Cry and Shockwave.

Thunderstrike - A Ninja who focuses on stunning nearby foes, and exploiting that state to deal increased damage.

Riot Control - Constructor focused on controlling the battlefield with DECOY, and wiping out packs of enemies with Plasma Pulse.

Flash - An elusive Outlander who uses Phase Shift to stun and escape from groups of enemies.

Plasma Pulse

Redesigned to no longer bounce when placed.

Rate of fire increased from 2 pulses/second at 8 pulses/second.

Base damage has been reduced from 80 to 14.

Goin' Commando's minigun is now flagged as a Ranged Weapon, causing it to benefit from Debilitating Shots and various other Soldier perks.

Outlander's Phase Shift will no longer interrupt most actions when activated, allowing it to be used more fluidly during combat.

Long Arm of The Law makes Anti Material Charge no longer stop on the first building hit.

In The Zone ability

Updated the tooltip to clarify that it requires 5 hits in a row.

Increased the reset timer between hits to 5 seconds from 3 seconds.

Hearty Strikes base heal amount decreased from 12 to 10.

[Rework] Firewall Perk

Melee attacks against the Constructor's shield trigger an energy pulse dealing Energy Damage and knocking back nearby enemies in a 0.5 tile radius (16 Second Cooldown).

Reduction drops by 15% each time the Soldier is hit. Regain 15% every 10 seconds if reduction is lower than 60%.

[Rework] Structural strike has been reworked: When Anti Material Charge hits a building it will refund some of its energy cost and have a reduced cooldown.

[Rework] Survivalist Perk/Tactical Bonus

Killing an enemy with an ability or weapon recovers 3 base health/second (scaling with Hero level and Tech) over 3 seconds. Additional kills reset the healing duration. Will not activate on full health.

[Rework] Soldier Support Specialist

‘There Are Many Like It...’ Weapon lifespan increase reduced to 80% while War Cry is active.

'There Are Many Like It...' now unlocks at level 30 (up from level 18).

Added ‘Practiced in Combat’ perk at level 18.

Removed 'Blitz' from level 30 (replaced it with 'There Are Many Like It...')

Slightly reduced the number of other enemies spawned while a Miniboss is present.

Drops of Rain and other evolution materials are now more heavily impacted by difficulty and mission reward chests. This causes an increase in drop quantity for everything except the lowest value chests.

Added Cozy Campfire Trap Schematics to Loot Llamas.

Also added a slot for Cozy Campfire in the Collection Book.

The following Quests have been moved to the Side Quests category in the Quest Journal since they are no longer Daily Quests.

A Little Van That Could!

Data Retrieval

Storm Chaser

Crafted weapons now come preloaded with exactly one clip of free ammo appropriate to the weapon (This does not consider the current hero, so the Waste Not Want Not perk does not apply to the clip size).

Bug Fixes

Twine Peaks Quest Glimmer of Hope should no longer list Retrieve the Data as an objective twice. Ride the Lightning should now be listed instead.

Clarified the description of Life Leech Attacks Storm Zone mutation.

Affliction can no longer deal critical hit damage.

Fixed an issue where players could occasionally not level up after outpost tutorial.

Fixed an issue where light swords heavy attack animation was interrupted by movement.

Fixed players seldom being unable to collect Bluglo when near a player-made building.

Fixed some ammo boxes being difficult to loot.

UI

New Updates featured added.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a case of text overrun in the Store tab.

It is no longer possible to add to a partial stack in Storm Shield Storage when the item limit is already exceeded.

Updated the tooltip for Survivalist tactical perk to clarify that it doesn't stack with the Survivalist hero perk.